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We are very pleased to invite you to a presentation by Delhi based documentary photographer Sohrab Hura:

9:45 am
Saturday, 1st September 2012
The Bakery Cafe, Sundhara

Sohrab Hura was born on 17th October 1981 in India. He grew up changing his ambitions from one exciting thing to another. He started with dreams of growing up and becoming a dog, which later turned to becoming a superhero and then to a veterinarian to a herpetologist to becoming a wild life filmmaker. Today he is a documentary photographer working on long-term projects, after having completed his Masters in Economics.

Sohrab has won Indian Press Photo Awards in 2006 and 2008. He participated in the Joop Swart Masterclass in 2009 and was listed as PDN’s 30 emerging photographers in 2010. The same year, he received the China International Press Photography Award for his work Holi and the Magnum Foundation’s Emergency Fund. He has exhibited work around the world and recently completed The Pilbara Project residency in Western Australia with an organization called FORM.

He will also be sharing with us a selection of works by various young Indian photographers and will talk to us about new directions in Indian photography.